Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
By: Josephine Ensign
3.62
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A compelling look at the historical roots of poverty and homelessness, the "worthy" and "unworthy" …
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. Stitches
By: David Small
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo… read more
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3. Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
By: Coll Thrush
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography In traditional scholarship, Na… read more
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4. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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5. Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography
By: David B. Williams
4.33
Format: 25 pages, ebook
Residents and visitors in today's Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding se… read more
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6. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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7. Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?
By: Ann Rule
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
The author of eight New York Timesbestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stran… read more
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8. It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree
By: None
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs … read more
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9. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)
By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more
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10. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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11. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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12. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
13. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
15. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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16. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
17. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
18. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
19. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
By: Edward Humes
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more
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20. Why We Swim
By: Bonnie Tsui
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more
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21. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
By: Jon Billman
3.69
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more
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22. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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23. Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
By: Chris Payne
4.41
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FA… read more
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" Jonathan Daniel: I mean, people knew "Sins." That song was so big everywhere. But yeah, I don't think they knew the band as much. I remember Panic! went to see Kanye in Vegas, and Pete asked Kanye i…"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
" Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really …"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
24. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
By: Daniel James Brown
4.49
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more
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25. The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
By: Will Grant
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Spellbinding…an unforgettable journey across the American West.” - Douglas Preston For readers … read more
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26. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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27. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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- sociology
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28. Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
By: Megan Asaka
4.31
Format: 272 pages, ebook
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattl… read more
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29. Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
By: David K. Randall
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His p… read more
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30. Washington's History, Revised Edition: The People, Land, and Events of the Far Northwest (Westwinds Press Pocket Guide)
By: Harry Ritter
3.73
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface an… read more
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31. Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
By: Josephine Ensign
3.62
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A compelling look at the historical roots of poverty and homelessness, the "worthy" and "unworthy" … read more
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